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Section 30 Tian Ji's Horse Racing

"Calcium supplementation" cannot be said. You can be unique or shocking, but if you use words that no one can understand in this era to explain things themselves, you are the heresy in everyone's eyes, either burning to death on the stolen rack or being eaten by hungry barbarians.

"Don't be so distracted, call me A Tong!" Niu Tong did not have the majesty of a superior. He raised his hand enthusiastically and pointed at Wu Yuan sitting opposite him: "There are no outsiders here, A Yuan and I are friends. Haha... Now, so are you."

Wu Yuan smiled and said, "Ahao, I saw that your identity document was written from Panshi Village. Why? Did you come to Chiti City to do business this time?"

"I am the newly promoted "100-person leader" in the village. I am going to go to Heijiao City to apply for promotion. I passed by last night and was resting in the hotel. I happened to hear guests talking about the injury of the city lord, so I'll come and take a look today." There is nothing to hide in these things.

Wu Yuan became more and more interested in him: "So, you have quite a lot of identities. Wizards, doctors, and there are still hundreds of people."

Tian Hao smiled humbly. For some reason, he felt that Niu Tong and Wu Yuan winked each other, but the speed was too fast and passed by in a flash.

"It just so happens that I will go back to Leijiao City tomorrow, let's go together!" Wu Yuan smiled and sent an invitation.

"Then I would like to thank you in advance." Tianhao bowed and thanked with a calm expression.

The discussion quickly deviated from Niu Tong's injury and moved to other aspects.

Wu Yuan should be hungry. He rolled up the sleeves of his clothes and picked up a big bone with meat to chew on it. The meat was stewed so hard that he ate it in three bites and threw the bare bones on the table. Looking at the circular section of the bone rod, Wu Yuan couldn't help but chuckled: "A Tong, I've been wandering around the city these days. Even under your rule, there are not many people willing to accept the new monetary policy!"

Niu Tong picked up the bowl, took a big sip of the broth, and sighed: "I support the Lion King's opinion very much. He did nothing wrong with doing this. Compared with the white people in the south, we lack too much."

Tianhao listened carefully to the two of them talking.

The Northern Barbarians will hold regular chief meetings, and all tribe kings will participate. Wars will break out between different tribes, but they must have a temporary truce during the chief meeting. From this point of view, it is quite a bit like the Olympic Games in the ancient times.

The whites occupied the southern continent, and they had a technological civilization far exceeding the northern barbarians. The Lion King was an enlightened tribal leader. He proposed a new monetary policy at the conference four years ago: imitating the practices of the southern whites, three currencies: gold, silver and copper, which were used to replace the old currency system of food and cloth. In this regard, the tribal leaders were divided into three opinions at the time. Some agreed, some opposed, and some did not comment. After voting, those who agreed had a slight advantage. The Lion tribe began to mint currency and distributed it to each tribe, and at the same time collected goods of corresponding value. However, four years later, the metal currency usage rate of the northern barbarians was not large and the transaction volume was extremely small.

Niu Tong was an enlightened city lord. He vigorously advocated the use of metal currency in Chiti City, but the effect was not obvious. People were still accustomed to using food and cloth.

He was puzzled by this: "Can the Lion King make a mistake? Metal currency is not suitable for us, or is it better to have the old method in the past?"

Wu Yuan could not explain this. He had seen the prosperity of the white kingdom in the south with his own eyes, but he did not understand the reason.

"Let me tell me how I feel!" Tianhao took out a copper coin from his leather robe pocket, placed it gently on the table, and picked up a piece of fist-sized bone that he had eaten before from the side, and placed it with the copper coin: "This time my brother and I left the village and went to Leijiao City, and the backpack was full of meat. When we were resting along the village at night, we took out some meat as a fee. The frozen and hard meat was very heavy and it was not convenient to divide. It was agreed that it would cost five kilograms of meat to stay for one night, and it would always be a little more or less cut. Speaking of which, this is because it was cold and the meat would not break in the bag. If it was summer, as long as we walked on the road for a day, the meat would become smelly and no one would ask for it."

Wu Yuan understood what he meant and nodded in praise: "So His Majesty the Lion King is right. The metal currency system must be advanced than our original food and cloth system."

"But it takes time and more publicity to make everyone accept this system." Tianhao made his words as easy to understand as possible: "For example, in our village, if you buy something with a coin like this, no one will accept it. Maybe they will even arrest you as a liar and beat you up."

Niu Tong was deeply touched by this: "It is really not easy for Chiti City to achieve the current situation. I used some effort to force the metal currency in the city."

"Continue to do what you should do!" Wu Yuan turned his eyes on Niu Tong's injured leg and smiled comfortably: "You don't have to play this bet game. Stay at home and recuperate. I will return to Heijiao City tomorrow and will report everything to the patriarch."

Niu Tong suddenly became a little depressed: "I was just a little unwilling to give up. I could have won a game, but now it seems impossible."

They were obviously talking about another thing. Tianhao observed the expressions of the two: "What kind of bets require you to play A Tong?"

Wu Yuan didn't care about his question and said casually: "The shooting competition between the Lei Niu Tribe and the Blood Eagle Tribe will be selected to end with three players, and A Tong is also one of the players."

Like the Cattle tribe, the Eagle tribe is also divided into multiple tribes such as Blood Eagle, Flying Eagle, Falcon, etc. Shooting is their strength, and the Eagle tribe archers are the first among all barbarians. The strongest Flying Eagle tribe is the second. The Blood Eagle tribe is sparsely populated and belongs to the weak tribe. The residential area is adjacent to the Lei Niu tribe. The war between the barbarians and the white people in the south has lasted for a long time, and the strong Cattle warriors have also evolved in the war, and their ability to use and control weapons has become stronger. Fifteen years ago, the Lei Niu tribe began to hold a shooting competition with the Blood Eagle tribe, and each took out a large amount of supplies as a bet, and the nobles in the tribe also participated. The number of wins and losses between the two sides was not very different, and there was not much difference.

"The situation in this year's competition is different from last year." Wu Yuan explained: "The best archers in the Blood Eagle Division died in the Dragon Locking Pass last month. The three players they sent this year are not as strong as us. It was supposed to be a sure win, but unexpectedly, A Tong had an accident and could not play now. In this way, our overall strength is not as good as the Blood Eagle Division, and we must have lost."

Niu Tong was helpless about this: "The clan leader attaches great importance to this matter. He sent people to urge him continuously and specially sent Ayuan to treat my injuries. My shooting skills rank first in the tribe. I can't play this time, so I can only let the clan leader choose another person."

"Ranking first?" Tianhao asked tentatively: "In other words, A Tong, are you the best archer in our tribe?"

Niu Tong nodded: "That's right."

Tianhao turned his gaze to Wu Yuan: "You just said that the best archers in the Blood Eagle Division were killed in battle. The overall strength of the contestants they sent to participate this year is not as good as ours?"

Wu Yuan didn't understand why Tianhao suddenly asked about this. He picked up the wine bowl and took a sip, his tone was a little dull: "If A Tong can play, we will definitely win this year. Now...ah, I won't mention it."

"I think we can win now."

When he said this, the room suddenly became quiet. Niu Tong and Wu Yuan both focused their eyes on Tianhao. It was so hot and full of surprise that Tianhao felt as if the whole world was staring at him.

He picked up a chopstick and broke it into three long sections, medium and short sections. Then he picked up another chopstick, compared the previous wooden section, broke it into three sections of the same length, and arranged it in sequence on the table.

"This is a contestant from the Blood Eagle." Tianhao raised his hand and pointed to the three wooden sections placed horizontally: "It corresponds to their first, second and third."

Then, Tianhao put the other three wooden sections next to each other: "This is our people, corresponding to the first, second, and third. The top one is A Tong. In other words, before A Tong was injured, our people were better than the Blood Eagle Division and could win in three games. Is that true?"

Both of them didn't understand what Tianhao meant, but they were interested by his actions. The bowls on the table blocked their sight, and Niu Tong simply moved the big bowl of meat next to them, making more space for Tianhao. He stared at the longest wooden section on the table, then looked at the wooden section that was placed next to each other, with a slightly shorter length, and looked a little unhappy, and nodded slowly: "Yes."

Tianhao picked up the wooden section representing Niu Tong with his left hand, and the shortest wooden section representing the three archers in Lei Niu Group with his right hand, and exchanged with each other: "Now A Tong has become the weakest player, and we can also change the order of participation. A Tong, you can play, but you have to deal with the strongest player in the Blood Eagle Division."

Niu Tong immediately glared at him: "Why?"

"Because you will definitely lose, but we will definitely win." Tianhao said, changing the comparison order of the wooden section in his hand: "Next, our long fights their middle, our middle fights their short. After three games, we can win two more games."

Looking at these small wooden sections on the table, Niu Tong, whose eyes widened, fell completely silent.

Wu Yuan felt the corners of his eyes twitch slightly. He took a long deep breath, tried to control the instant intense excitement in his body, and exclaimed: "Ahao is right, if this is the case, we can win."

After a long time, Niu Tong finally raised his head, and his eyes looking at Tianhao were filled with shock: "Ahao, how did you think of it?"
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